Julia Kavanagh, English Women of Letters

Colleen McCullough, a famous Australian women novelist, extensively deals with the issue of sexual colonization by exhibiting the fact that this world belongs to men not to women where women suffer and men cause them pain. Meggie, the central character in the novel is shown as the victim, sufferer and the colonized individual and Paddy, Ralph and Luke are shown as the epitome of the British colonizers who misused, misbehaved and degraded the women during their colonial rule. The novelist while sketching women characters does not asseverate as ostensible women of letters but for the delineation of patriarchy in the novel The Thorn Birds which clearly manifests her declivity in the vicinity of the infringement with women in Australian society.

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Les "modernes" religioses valencianes: entrebancs d'una recerca textual

SCRIPTA Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna ◽

10.7203/scripta.1.2588 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 271

Author(s):

Maria Ángeles Herrero Herrero

Keyword(s):

Women Religious ◽

Genre Analysis ◽

Modern Age ◽

Starting Point ◽

Subsequent Application ◽

Women Of Letters

Resum: El catàleg titulat Lletraferides modernes. Catàleg de les escriptores valencianes dels segles XVI-XVIII (Herrero 2009) suposava un punt de partida en la compilació de «lletraferides» valencianes de l’Edat Moderna. Aquest ajudà a rescatar els seus noms, però el major handicap radica en la diversitat en la localització física dels textos. A través d’una visió dels diferents gèneres que empraren aquestes escriptores, en especial les religioses (poesia, mística, auto/biografia espiritual…), avancem algunes conclusions que permetran una anàlisi sociolingu?ística, literària i de gènere d’eixes obres.Paraules clau: Catàleg, Localizació textual, Autores religioses, Valencianes, Modernes.Abstract: The catalogue entitled Lletraferides modernes. Catàleg de les escriptores valencianes dels segles XVI-XVIII (Herrero 2009) provided a starting point for the compilation of Valencian «women of letters» in the Modern Age. Although this catalogue helped to recover the names of these authors, the process is greatly hindered by the diversity of textual localisation. By considering the different genres these writers, particularly the religious authors, favoured (poetry, mystic, spiritual auto/biography,…), this paper aims to provide a number of conclusions for subsequent application in the sociolinguistic, literary and genre analysis of these works.Keywords: Catalogue, Textual localisation, Women religious authors, Valencian, Modern

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Introduction

Ladies' Greek ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691141893.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Yopie Prins

Keyword(s):

Women Writers ◽

Virginia Woolf ◽

Greek Tragedy ◽

Classical Antiquity ◽

Elizabeth Barrett Browning ◽

Ancient Greek ◽

Collective Identification ◽

Victorian Women ◽

Greek Alphabet ◽

Women Of Letters

This book examines why Victorian women of letters such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sara Coleridge, and Virginia Woolf self-consciously performed collective identification with Greek letters and showed literary interest in their translations of with Greek tragedy. It considers how these women engaged with ideas about classical antiquity, and how much they contributed to the idealization of all things Greek. It discusses the ways in which women learned to read the Greek alphabet, to discover all the letters between alpha and omega, and how they turned ancient Greek into a language of and for desire. The book argues that nineteenth-century women writers turned to tragedy in particular as a literary genre for the performance of female classical literacy, and that their passionate reading of Greek led them into various forms of translation. Five tragedies are analyzed to elucidate the legacy of Ladies' Greek: Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound, Electra, Hippolytus, and Bacchae.

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French Women of Letters and English Women of Letters

The politics of writing ◽

10.7765/9781847792952.00008 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Eileen Fauset

Keyword(s):

Women Of Letters

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A 'learned wave': women of letters and science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History ◽

10.4324/9781315005133-10 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 59-75

Keyword(s):

The Enlightenment ◽

Women Of Letters

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Going Public

Jewish Women in Enlightenment Berlin ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781904113539.003.0004 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 102-145

Author(s):

Natalie Naimark-Goldberg

Keyword(s):

Women Writers ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Jewish Women ◽

Going Public ◽

Local Conditions ◽

Female Authors ◽

Writing Culture ◽

Women Of Letters

This chapter investigates the literary activity of enlightened Jewish women, discussing their attitudes towards authorship and what the crucial decision to publish their writings meant in the context of their time. As female authors, these Jewish women of letters were part of a broader phenomenon in contemporary Europe. Throughout the eighteenth century and especially towards its end, a female writing culture was developing simultaneously in various lands. Although the pace and nature of this literary expansion differed from place to place, depending on specific local conditions, countries including Germany, France, and England all saw a dramatic increase in the number of women active in the field of literature. The chapter then looks at the literary careers and the attitudes towards publishing of four of the Jewish women writers from the period, namely Esther Gad, Dorothea Mendelssohn, Rahel Levin, and Sara Meyer.

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